Averting Amazonian Meltdown
Hi People,
In my last essay, I noted that the Amazon rainforest was in danger of collapsing as a functional ecosystem within a handful of years, and humanity needs to undertake a massive project to protect it.
Almost the next day, I received an email from a reader, Rob de Laet, who has developed such a macro-scale plan. Read it here: A Plan for the World’s First Large Sustainable Bioeconomy. I resonate with his approach and found it fascinating to follow the many links he has compiled. This Sunday afternoon, April 3, at 1 pm EST / 9 am PST we will hold a Zoom call to discuss Rob’s plan. Rob will explain how he put it together, then we can ask him questions about it. He writes:
“In order to turn things around in the Amazon, people and organizations in Brazil — as well as the other eight Amazonian countries and worldwide — must come together under the guidance of the indigenous people. The guardians of the forests for millennia, they understand the local biome better than scientists and view themselves as part of the ecosystem. The goal is to create a vision and a plan for a sustainable future for the area. The vision and plan would be based on a sustainable forest economy, a form of bioeconomy with the thriving forest as the producer of abundance, in everlasting cycles of regeneration.”
Please register for the call here. It is donation-based.
Kind regards,
Daniel
Great ideas, but how are you going to stop the land-robbers who yearly encroach upon the Amazon's territory to carve out their ranches, and kill plenty of indigenous people and tribes to do so. How are you going to stop the illegal miners encroaching on the Amazon?
Bolsonaro is like a second Trump, may God help Brazil. He is only interested in making money even at the cost of the world's ecosystem. They have tried establishing protected areas of the Amazon, but its difficult to monitor and control because of its remote location. Also, the Brazilian government has been taking money for years from the West to try to keep parts of the Amazon safe, but they are still failing. Looks like they are taking the money and doing nothing.